The Ripper was a Mason: I
learned it on the Internet!

Masons
and Freemasonry have been accused of everything from starting World War I to
collaborating with space aliens. Proof for those who make such claims is, of
course, something that's unnecessary since they KNOW this to be the case.
Bizarre claims have been part and parcel of anti-Masonic rhetoric for three
centuries and those for whom the world is a very unmanageable place seem to find
great solace in these fantasies. There are a number of persons discussed on this
site for whom the fear of Freemasons and their organization is a driving force
in their lives, sometimes leading to anti-social behavior including but not
limited to murder.

For one
Canadian (former?) home care worker, it's the Freemasons who are impeding the
explosive sales of her books!

That's
right - and all you Masons out there KNOW that you're doing it so you'd just
darn well better admit it!

You are exactly right, Diana. I have solved
the whole case. I know everything.
(Link)

She
amplified this by writing:

To solve this case, it took someone:

Open-minded

Highly intelligent

Good researcher

Hard worker

Great detective skills

Very determined

Willing to walk down paths untrodden
<sic>

I solved it with my brain, my heart and my
laptop.

And
later in that same public posting she adds,

Wait until you read my medical data in the
book!! I've been holding out on you people big time!! Calling me a
psycho is very immature and a total cop-out. I am the exact opposite
of that, actually. I was always a precocious child. My parents were
impressed that I could read at 3 years old.

You
can read the entire post
here (if you're not already choking!).
The
statements above should allow you to draw some conclusions
about Ms. Trenouth, to wit: she
does not suffer from even the vaguest hint of insecurity or self-doubt, she
seems to revel in self-righteous indignation (more proof of that to come). She can't structure a thought on paper with any degree of consistency
whatsoever. Of course, one must consider the inspiration for her work. As she
states:

Now, you know why I was getting
upset. I did this all by myself and working at the same time. Maybe, I
was hit by an Epiphany or maybe someone from the other side channeled me
- I DON'T KNOW!! It is one of life's mysteries!!
(Link)

She
added the next morning:

I
don't plan on fame and fortune changing me one bit. I like me. I will
remain kind, nice, caring, considerate and generous, even though I will
be

in

That
statement was made back on 11 March 2006 but based on her book sale numbers
found online, it can only be because of - as she herself has
written and stated - a
concerted effort by Freemasons that her books haven't achieved the international
acclaim to which she is entitled.

Damn
Masons!

But
we're getting ahead of ourselves and her conclusion that the Masons and the
Illuminati (they're always needed for a good conspiracy,
right?) are out to get her book squashed have a basis, albeit one which is SO
ridiculous and bizarre that before you're done with this page, you may be
laughing so hard that you'll do severe damage to your computer screen if you
have any liquid nearby. Karen
would never have been able to resolve this century-old
mystery were it not for the harassment and
needling of one 'Ripperologist', Mr. Robert Hinton of Wales - and therein lies
the Karen-imagined connection to Freemasonry.

A
short history

First,
some background: the 'Jack the Ripper' murders along with the mention of several
others who, like Ms. Trenouth, boldly proclaimed that they had also
solved this case are detailed here on our
website. For those who've not studied the Ripper in
detail but are now tempted to do so on the web, even the most cursory
use of search engines will quickly lead you to the
Casebook
site, probably the
largest and best known of locations where 'Ripperologists' - those with an
abiding and sometimes fanatical interest in these crimes - will congregate. Like
their much more popular (and more easily mocked due to
space-ship costuming) counterparts,
the 'Trekkies', Ripperologists can be somewhat beyond the pale when it comes to
obsession. They don't take kindly to specious arguments and ill-formed
conclusions. Their skills at insults towards those who make
bizarre claims are well-honed and their disdain for
'know-it-alls' seems to be limitless. Nevertheless, the brightest and most
diligent researchers on this topic congregate there to exchange pearls of wisdom
and float theories. It is probably the 'center of the universe' regarding all
matters Ripper but when someone new arrives and within a
couple of weeks has all the answers, seemingly out of thin air, it brings out a
response that is nothing short of a 'perfect storm'.

Into
this maw wandered Ms. Trenouth - and the sparks began to fly almost immediately.
The chronology, albeit a bit conjectured, seems to have
occurred as follows:

In 2005, Karen apparently stumbles on this thing called
the Internet and,
simultaneously, decides that she can be a world-renown
author. She arrives at the Casebook website where she begins asking
questions based on her preconceived notion of 'who dun it' in
the Ripper case. She is immediately
set upon by the 'regulars' who note the absurdity of both her questions and her
approach. Karen becomes incensed (and that's putting it
mildly, believe me!) and lashes out
at everyone including those who are attempting to smooth the waters
and show her the error of both her ideas and her approach. Her behavior is
immature and for some of her protagonists, it's like blood in the water at shark
feeding time. One person who gives
'murder mystery' tours
in his town in Wales and is a published Ripper author, Bob Hinton, decides to
prove to Karen, once and for all, how really foolish she's
being. He
e-mails her and provides a number of 'slightly off' hints:
things which any true Ripper researcher would immediately spot as being a
'wind-up'. Meanwhile, Karen is
bragging about how she has now (already!!!) written a book
with her findings. She brags about her expectations that publishers
will be
fawning over her in a matter of moments. Needless to say, the regulars on the
Casebook Forum have a field day with this self-anointed expert who doesn't seem
to know the first thing about the basics of the case, of
publishing, or of life for that matter, but has no problem
whatsoever with self-praise and abject denial of anything
contrary to her world-view.

There are many twists and turns along the way. Karen seeks
solace in the company of a woman who was then under investigation for stalking
(and who has since been arrested and is in a psychiatric prison!
No kidding!) but fails to
heed the warnings of those around her thinking that everyone
is out to get the both of them.... She does,
however, accept Mr. Hinton's conjectured/misleading
information and uses it to formulate even more bizarre theories. As a researcher, Ms. Trenouth seems utterly
incapable of getting 1 and 1 to equal 2 - and this, plus her boorish online
behavior including her braggadocio about becoming rich from her publishing,
grates badly on everyone around her.

My book is finally complete. It is wonderful
and everyone will love it, I guarantee. Watch for it
soon.......................................

My husband is so impressed, he told me that I
always had it in me to be a brilliant writer. This book proves that,
I promise you

Uh-huh.... And as if that weren't
enough,
she writes on 25 February 2006:

When the publishers read the book, they will
be flabbergasted at my facts and findings. Even they will freak!! My
book has research material, pictures, story. It is not in the form
of a diarrhea/diary.

The howls of laughter would make your computer shake and
we suspect many a computer monitor was nearly ruined by people reading Karen's
posts. They said so too - and on March 10, 2006 Karen
struck back:

GO WRITE YOUR OWN BOOK!!!

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

I CAME ON HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS!!!

THERE AREN'T ANY!!!

GOODBYE!!!!!!

I WILL NEVER, EVER IN MY LIFE, ATTEMPT TO
COMMUNICATE WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING
AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS WAS MY LAST AND FINAL ATTEMPT!

I prefer to be
alone anyway - reading, surfing the net, and increasing my
Intelligence Quotient even more. At this rate, it should hit 200 by
next year.

Reading things is certainly good, surfing the net can be
fun at times, but we're not really sure what she's going to do to increase her IQ
since - as with most of her writing - it isn't done properly! (Did she mean that
reading and net surfing will do it? If so, why not use "to" rather than listing
them as three separate items?)

When Karen was questioned about the impossible syntax
of her title (i.e., how could the non-human 'Whitechapel Murders' have
had an epiphany?), she
tried to explain but quickly became enraged
because no one could understand her
'logical thinking'. Further, it doesn't seem that anyone was able to pin her down on
how long it took to write this work which - according to her - solved a murder mystery over a
century old. From all appearances, it was about a week or 10 days
- including the book writing! We'll await correction though....

It was about this time that the Hinton hammer fell: Mr.
Hinton began a series of forum messages in which he
dissected Ms. Trenouth's
assumptions. He pointed out numerous contradictory statements she had made and
noted how, based on his false information, she had proceeded along with compound
assumptions. Explosively, Karen's rage erupted and a series of threatening and
tearful messages followed, several promising to be the last message that she
would post
on the Casebook forum. As is usual with threats of this type,
that's not the way things play out.

So where's the Masonic hook in all this?

One of Mr. Hinton's false clues dealt with Masonic
membership and Ms. Trenouth immediately became convinced that it
was the FREEMASONS
who were hell-bent on ruining her astonishingly successful (well,
PLANNED
successful, perhaps) publishing career. Like a laser beam, Karen's anger
focused on Bob and she proceeded to make herself look continually more foolish by
assigning him to a particular lodge membership simply because she found one
single lodge in Wales on the internet. There are MANY more details which we'll omit for
the time being. Mr. Hinton's baited trap was not particularly
well appreciated by other forum members, they feeling that it went WAY over the
top in provoking someone who was - in their words - barely clinging to reality.

Mr. Hinton and Ms. Trenouth became protagonists in what
looked to outsiders as a battle to the death. Ms. Trenouth
felt that Mr.
Hinton's actions were some masterminded plot to keep the secrets
of the Jack the Ripper murders quiet because they were done by the Freemasons
and SHE was the sole person to have "proven" this. She announced that
Hinton comes
"...from a long line of Satanists...." and used absurd hyperbole to (she
apparently thought) discredit him. By August, 2006, she had even convinced her local
newspaper to run an article which stated:

Local Ripper author draws critics; Claim that Freemasons were
behind murders sparks calls for a boycott

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Laura Stradiotto

Local News

A Sudbury woman says she has the answer to who was behind the
notorious Jack The Ripper murders.

Self-published author Karen Trenouth points the finger at a group of
aristocratic Freemasons in her book, Epiphany of the Whitechapel
Murders.

Not surprising, some Freemasons are upset, while "Ripperologists"
have slammed her theory, calling on readers to boycott her book.

But hateful e-mails and critical reviews don't discourage Trenouth,
who is already working on her second book.

Trenouth said she discovered a missing piece of evidence in an old
crime scene photograph posted on the Internet. In the photo next to
one of Ripper's victims, Mary Jane Kelly, is a demonic idol.
Trenouth searched the Internet to see whether anyone had made the
same observation. No one had.

"It really shocked me," said Trenouth.

"It meant I found something that everyone else missed. I went from
there researching and investigating who my suspects were, why this
wasn't in the post-mortem report because all the contents of the
room were detailed and that wasn't mentioned."

Some Freemasons are upset? Could she name a single one?
No? OH! This statement arises, obviously, because she's still
under the impression that
Bob Hinton is a Freemason.... Got it! And yes, there's the announcement: she's
working on her second book because - ooops - she didn't quite get all of that
Freemason stuff into the first one 'cause Mr. Hinton didn't pull his stunt until
her book was already at her vanity publisher. So the solution
was to add to her
publishing wealth by paying for yet another self-published book.

But surely you're wondering how Karen solved this crime
which had eluded thousands upon thousands of others over more than a century. It
really was SO easy, you'll kick yourself that you didn't figure it out and could
be on your way to a life of fame and fortune like Karen. She used a photograph
taken in 1888 that she found on the web - and viewed in the
standard (poor!) 72 dpi web photo resolution after having been reproduced again
and again in various sizes hundreds of times. In it, she says
she saw
something on the dressing table of
one of the victims - something that all of the police detectives
there at the time and everyone who's looked at that picture (or its thousands of
copies) somehow managed
to overlook. Amazing, isn't it? In
her own words:

First, I read all of the post mortem reports of the murder
victims, then approximately two months later I was looking over the
crime scene photos and made a most interesting discovery. I saw that
on the bedside table next to the last murder victim, a goat-headed
bronze idol was left by the murderer. I then realized that this idol
was Baphomet, which is the God of the Witches and the God of
Masonry. This idol was not mentioned in any of the police reports or
in the post mortem reports, so I then came to the conclusion that a
very important person was being protected. That person was none
other than, Prince Albert Victor. He also left many other clues at
the last murder scene, which included his Order of the Garter
insignia and his murder weapons.

So amazingly, Karen was able to see what
thousands - perhaps tens of thousands - of trained
professionals and obsessed amateurs missed
looking at those pictures for over a
century. Not only that, from a black and white picture, she
could tell it was a BRONZE statue. (This in a dirt-poor part
of London where anyone could have sold such an item and lived luxuriously for years
probably!) Isn't this just fascinating? And, can you
believe it: they ALSO missed finding a Prince's Order of the Garter medal. Karen
doesn't tell us where she happened to see this in the photograph but it's really
amazing how many people who would have been in that room simply didn't see what
Karen found in a photograph - or how so many people who've
viewed the photos since missed it as well. The woman
clearly has an amazing set of eyeballs!

What's also pretty amazing is that someone going off to
commit a murder would wander around the streets of a grimy neighborhood with a
"bronze statue of Baphomet". Truth be told, we thought that this had been merely
a picture drawn for the book by Eliphas Levy but if Karen says somebody was
wandering the street with a bronze statue which - along with their Knightly
Order of the Garter insignia, both of which were overlooked by dozens of people
at the time and likely millions since, who are we to argue?

And the lady with the 200+++++ IQ now shows
us a new skill: cut and paste!

By 2007, Karen assured us that her IQ would
be over 200 so with a couple of more years beyond that, there's no telling what
it is today. To exhibit her stupendous intelligence to the world, she not only
continues to state that Freemasonry Watch is a "group" but she also spends
seeming inordinate amounts of time pouring through old online texts from the anti-Masonic period of
the early 1800s citing the supposed ills of Freemasonry. Should you happen to
come across them, you'll find yet more examples of Karen's fine discernment
including this one with the tale of an ostensible Masonic candidate named "Korn
Kobb". That ANYONE could read even a few sentences and not realize the ribald
wind-up involved is truly amazing but not, really, when it involves Ms.
Trenouth. It is, rather, 'par for the course'. You can read her post
here along with her comments at the bottom taking exception to those who
didn't acknowledge her achievements when she did a podcast. (Maybe if we'd
listened to her, it'd would have convinced us that she's FAR more than we've seen so far - but
the odds are about the same as the earth bumping into Saturn tomorrow....)

WHOOPS! (A January 2009 update)

Karen's writing skills led us to believe that she saw a
"bronze idol" (after all, that's what she wrote - as shown above) but what she
(thinks she) saw was really a representation of Mr. Baphomet. In the midst of
senseless blog posts of material cut and pasted from websites with no
explanation as to why they might be relevant to the Ripper case and leading one
to think everyone in the world had a hand in this, on January 6, 2009 Ms.
Trenouth
FINALLY provided us with the graphics which "prove" what she saw. The
ominous words attached to these pictures were, simply, "Try to deny its
existence now!" With trepidation (amidst our nearly
immobilizing laughter), we've put them here:

OK, we surrender. Don't you just see it? This
are SUCH obvious renditions - taken from a grainy, century-old photograph - it's
hard to imagine how all of those present in that murder room would have missed
this connection. Well, obviously, though, when it's a Masonic plot, they just
had to ignore it, right? Good thing Karen had such sharp eyes. Now the problem's
solved and we can all go home.

Oh, we hope you don't mind if we continue to
ask, though, about the Masonic-Baphomet connection below.

Back to our regular programming....

Karen's books have gotten HORRIBLE reviews EXCEPT by some
people. Well, it seems only ONE person, actually: Karen herself. Other
reviewers, she has noted in several places including her dozen or so blogs, were
simply biased. They are part of the Masonic conspiracy that's acting against
her. So what has she done to counter this? Well Karen has made it a point to go
to many places where the books are offered including Amazon
(US), Amazon UK, and Chapters (Canada) and
posted reviews in which she pretends to be someone else. What's truly absurd is
that it's so patently obvious what's been done. Here, for example, is a photo
showing that Karen Trenouth on Canada's Chapters
bookseller website telling how she'd read it over three
nights. No kidding, folks: this is what's been going back and forth - and it's
hilarious! (All the fault of those tricky Freemasons too....)

But we've saved the best for last!

Karen's obsession now about Freemasons sabotaging her book
sales - though she regularly brags that she'll overcome that - has led her into
even more bizarre behavior.

On one of her several blogs, she regularly made statements
that were so totally absurd as to deprive her of even
a modicum of credibility. She stated, for example, that if Freemasonry wasn't so evil, there wouldn't
be a need for an organization such as 'Freemasonry Watch'. Now needless to say,
that particular claim darn near ruined OUR monitor because we had a cup of
freshly brewed tea in hand at the time. Freemasonry Watch an ORGANIZATION?
Even the though of it is SO comical
- and yet, Karen trots that out in her blogs on a regular basis. Hey Karen:
you're such a great internet researcher, why is it that you haven't stumbled on our pages
about the Freemasonry Watch one-man show that's all right
here. Do you even know the name of your Canadian buddy
who is the one-man band behind that site? No? Oh: just accept his credibility
because it's convenient. Based on your book "research", that seems quite logical
actually.

Karen has also publicly posted things like this below:

As to Mr. Norder's comment that "the accusations of witchcraft have
been cooked up", try to keep in mind that the following people (who do
not know each other at all) have all given the same testimony and
provided the same evidence, meaning there is no "cook up". What a
hypocritical comment for Mr. Dan "Ripper Notes" Norder to make. The
Freemasons and Illuminati NEVER engage in "conspiracies" or "cook ups".
Yet former high-level Freemasons and Illuminati witches who have left
the organization are "cooking these things up". Mr. Norder, it is time
to cut the crap - you cannot have it both ways. Here are the individuals
with the EXACT SAME information (who do NOT know each other):

- Karen Trenouth - exposed the worship of Baphomet in Freemasonry and
The Illuminati <ROFL>

- Bill Schnoebelen - admitted to being a former Freemason witch
priest, bishop and vampire <Our
link about his lies here>

- David Icke - exposed George Washington's statue resembling
Baphomet's pose to a tee <Our link about his lies
here - and we didn't know golf
had anything to do with Washington until now, but we do thanks to our
erstwhile AUTHOR Karen>

- Jim Shaw - admitted to performing Black Masses for the Scottish
Rite <Our link about his lies
here but nowhere in his single
book did he ever suggest such a thing! Pure Trenouth fantasy, making it
up as she goes along.>

- Doc Marquis - former Illuminist witch who also admitted to
witchcraft ties in Freemasonry

- Henry Makow, PHD - Illuminati defector who admitted to the satanic
hatred that the Illuminati have for the Jews

- The Gormogons - an anti-masonic order who exposed the secrets of
Freemasonry - witchcraft, sorcery, and pagan worship <"The
Antient Noble Order of the Gormogons was a short-lived eighteenth
century societyleaving no records or
accomplishments to indicate its true goal and purpose. From the few
published advertisements and notices, it would appear that its sole
objective was to hold up Freemasonry to ridicule."

. But why let facts get in
the way, eh Karen?>

How can these claims be made on the basis of a political "cook up",
since not even one of these individuals are running for office?

Where do we begin? <SIGH>

So Karen's 'research' has produced
'authorities' which, in a list of 8 including herself first in place of primacy,
has only two ex-Masons, both of which have been completely and thoroughly
debunked by not only this site but many others. Seven people making these claims
out of tens of millions of Freemasons over the past three hundred years. Yeah,
that's pretty impressive. Oh, and we'd DEFY you, Karen, to produce evidence that
the Gormogons (the name given to rag-tag groups who would show up for mocking
parades in London in the early 1700s) ever "exposed" anything. Come on, Karen:
an adept researcher such as yourself with such a huge IQ should have no problems
whatsoever providing proof to your assertion of what the Gormogons did. Maybe
you can even name a couple?

Or, perhaps Karen can show us one single documented proof of
Freemasonry practicing the worship of Baphomet? Come on, Karen: a ritual from
some Grand Lodge somewhere? Surely since you've been 'exposed' this shouldn't be
too hard, should it?

Karen's even been reading our site.

In her
March 19, 2009 post, she shows us she knows as much about Kabala as
she does about Jack the Ripper and ends with this:

Recently, Masonic Info asked the following
question to me on their website, "What does Baphomet have to do with
Freemasonry?" Well, I have provided the answer numerous times, and
particularly in the past 2 days. Baphomet is the God of Witchcraft
and Freemasonry. Full stop.

No, Karen, that's NOT what you've
done. I know that this is really, REALLY hard for you to accept but just
because you pull out some article that mentions Freemasonry and Baphomet
together, it does NOT mean that you know what you're blathering on
about. This is why, you see, everyone laughs at your absurd attempts to
claim that you are a "researcher". You've proven NOTHING. No way, no
how! The problem is, your 'full stop' isn't a full stop at all but is,
in fact, an admission for all to see that you don't have
even the foggiest clue as to what
you're blathering on about. It's sad, really - and if you could only see
yourself as others see you, you'd be SO embarrassed.
If you had even a shred of common sense, you'd quit before
you dig your hole any
deeper.

And a bit more:

Did Karen read our page about the joke which is
Bill
Schnoebelen? Likely she feels she shouldn't have to since she already
knows the answers that make her happy. However, she could have easily found it
in a Google search and can just
click here to get to it without
using her super sleuthing skills. Don't even get us started on Arizona Wilder
but we have done some stuff on Mr. Icke. Again, it's not too very hard to find.
Just click here.

Ah, but the one we REALLY loved was about Jim Shaw who,
according to researcher Karen Trenouth, "admitted to performing Black Masses for
the Scottish Rite." Perhaps Karen would be good enough to cite the page in Mr.
Shaw's SOLE BOOK where he says this happened? (And you can also see that Jim
Shaw is a proven liar here - though to
his credit, he never made such an absurd claim!) Ms. Trenouth wants to "prove"
the Baphomet-Freemasonry connection but curiously, ignores things like this!

She's also been bragging quite a bit about
becoming rich on the sale of her books and making absurd claims that
they're being sold as texts for college courses in crime. Needless to say,
neither of these are true and at some point, we'll debunk some more of her
idiotic comments. Suffice it to say that as an anti-Mason, Karen is a joke!

Oh, and since Karen hasn't published her promised 3rd work of
miraculous revelations now three years later
(likely too busy spending all of her cash and finding websites that bring up her
name), we thought that she might find
this book helpful although since her IQ must be around
400 by now, she surely has all of the world's knowledge already.

All, except, how to properly configure a blog or tell the
truth!

SAD!

Regular regurgitation

Karen's blog through 2009 now consists of numerous lengthy cut and past items
from various newspaper sources. She adds nothing whatsoever to them, leaving the
reader to puzzle why this or that article has any interest whatsoever. Very
rarely, she'll toss in an irrelevant comment - and always in a way that it's
hard (impossible, in most cases) to differentiate her writing from that of the
quoted article. She never provides links from which REAL researchers could
follow-on and determine if she's simply been selective in her quotes,
overlooking perhaps more relevant material. This activity takes place in bursts
and it's obvious when Karen has spent several hours online as there will be 6-8
of these posts at once.

In the coming eons, it will be interesting to see if any 'real' book on JTR
ever quotes Karen. They will if they want their audience to have a laugh....

And during 2013, Karen apparently decided she needed more self-publicity and
so created her
own bulletin board and has made in excess of 4,300 posts to it as of this
writing (January 5, 2014). Busy little girl - and curiously, most of the topics
prohibit replies. As is typical, Karen doesn't ever want anyone to say she's
wrong or have to refute reality!

Updated January 31, 2009 with the
Baphomet pictures and in June, 2009 to mention her fascination with the cut and
paste feature of her computer. Added the picture of her and
the toilet in September, 2009: we think the synchronicity is SO appropriate!
Updated again in December, 2009 with comments on the ludicrous foolishness of
her research 'comments'. Updated January 5, 2014 with news of Karen's
"discussion board" which, in reality, is only a podium for more of her
blathering.

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